Colorectal Surgery
Conjoint Professor of Surgery, University of new South Wales, Head of Department of Colorectal Surgery and the Division of Surgery, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Senior Editor Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
David Lubowski is Conjoint Professor in Surgery, University of New South Wales, and Head of Department of Colorectal Surgery and the Division of Surgery, and Director of the Anorectal Physiology Unit at St George Hospital, Sydney.
He has published over 120 papers in national and international peer reviewed journals, and 21 chapters in textbooks. He has a Google Scholar h-Index of 50 with over 7,400 citations.
Professor Lubowski has been Visiting Professor, Royal Society of Medicine, London. He has given over 110 lectures at national and international conferences.
He is on the Senior Editorial Board of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, and was the colorectal specialty editor from 2010-2023. He is a referee to multiple European and American high impact factor journals.
He has been a councillor on the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia, a referee to the National Health and Medical Research Council, and a member of the National Panel for Cancer Research Grants, Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria.
His research interests are in constipation, faecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, and complex anal fistula management.
Selected publications from PubMed
Intracorporeal anastomosis for minimally invasive right colectomy - is it time for wider uptake?
Phan-Thien KC, Cooper EA, Lubowski DZ
ANZ J Surg. 2023 Mar;93(3):454-455 doi: 10.1111/ans.18276.
The challenge of colorectal surgery in the elderly.
Cooper E, Phan-Thien KC, Lubowski D
ANZ J Surg. 2022 Sep;92(9):1974-1975 doi: 10.1111/ans.17912.
Anal sphincter preservation after rectal excision: a continuing evolution of techniques.
Lansom JD, Lubowski DZ
ANZ J Surg. 2022 Mar;92(3):316-317 doi: 10.1111/ans.17470.
Lateral pelvic lymph nodes: the next phase in rectal cancer surgery.
Suhardja TS, Phan-Thien KC, Lubowski DZ
ANZ J Surg. 2020 Jul;90(7-8):1226-1227 doi: 10.1111/ans.15999.
Subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis for slow transit constipation: clinical follow-up at median of 15 years.
Patton V, Balakrishnan V, Pieri C, Doherty P, Phan-Thien KC, King DW, Lubowski DZ
Tech Coloproctol. 2020 Feb;24(2):173-179 doi: 10.1007/s10151-019-02140-5.
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